Nonviolence to animals, earth, and self in Asian traditions
This book probes the origins of the practice of nonviolence in early India and traces its path within the Jaina, Hindu, and Buddhist traditions. It speaks to a variety of contemporary issues, such as vegetarianism, animal and environmental protection, and the cultivation of religious tolerance
Print Book, English, ©1993
State University of New York Press, Albany, ©1993
xiv, 146 pages ; 24 cm
9780791414972, 9780791414989, 0791414973, 0791414981
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pt. I. Nonviolence, Animals, and Earth
1. Origins and Traditional Articulations of Ahimsa
2. Nonviolence, Buddhism, and Animal Protection
3. Nonviolent Asian Responses to the Environmental Crisis: Select Contemporary Examples
pt. II. The Nonviolent Self
4. Otherness and Nonviolence in the Mahabharata
5. Nonviolent Approaches to Multiplicity
6. The Jaina Path of Nonresistant Death
7. Living Nonviolence